Our second Visiting Artist this week was one of my new heros! Marjane Satrapi visited Dartmouth College on Thursday and our whole school trekked up there (a few miles! Phew!) I had read her books, Persepolis and Embroideries, but borrowed them from CCS' library. Now, I wanted my OWN copy of Persepolis so I...
We had an "extra" Visiting Artist this week! Richard Fairgray came all the way from New Zealand to talk to us about his work, the state of comics in New Zealand, Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey and how that relates to children' books (the First Year students are working...
We had lots of visitors and guest professors, and we learned a lot about story structures and plot. I guess it was the Week of The Story - even our Visiting Artist, was actually a Visiting Author. Jo Knowles writes YA books based on her own experiences. I've got a big project due...
I had a great Birthday... Week. I was fed well, and on Thursday, The Fireman threw a lovely party for me! Tuesday in Thesis Seminar we talked about some comics. They didn't really get me excited, but I liked my notes, so... Our teacher, Sophie Yanow, shared her own process for organizing and...
This was a really fun way to start my birthday! Our Visiting Artist today was Jim Woodring - famous for his cartoon character - FRANK. His talk was strangely disturbing... and encouraging at the same time. I was really attracted to his line work - take a look at his website to see what I...
Day Two... starting to get more intense! When I signed up for this workshop, I had intended to work on what had started out as the "Rip-Off" graphic novel project (this past spring) - the magic trailer park story. I have about 8 pages done on that story and wanted to do more....
